Weedon Vets

Welcome to Weedon Vets!

Due to increasing demand Towcester Veterinary Centre Group opened a new small animal clinic in Weedon in the Spring of 2014. Towcester Veterinary Centre has been providing veterinary services to all creatures great and small in the area for over 100 years.

About us
We pride ourselves on being an extremely friendly and approachable team at Weedon. We believe that every animal deserves the highest standard of veterinary care and that every client should receive exceptional customer service.

Facilities
Our purpose built Weedon practice is equipped with a state-of-the-art operating theatre, digital x-ray, dental facilities and lab. If you would like a tour of Weedon Vets then just call our reception team and they will arrange this for you.

Providing our own emergency service
We are one of the few practices in the area still providing our own out-of-hours emergency service. This is run from the Towcester Veterinary Centre hospital by our own vets and nurses (so if you are seen in an emergency you may well have the reassurance of seeing a familiar face).

All the latest news
We aim to keep you updated on topical issues through regular posts on our Blog, Facebook page and Twitter. We also hold occasional informal client talks at venues in the area.

Our Team

We have a small and friendly team at Weedon Vets. You can find out a bit more about them here.

Training and development

To ensure we stay up to date and can provide your pet with the latest medical and surgical care, continual professional development courses are compulsory for all our vets, nurses and ancillary staff.

An RCVS accredited Veterinary Nurse Training Centre

We also take an active role in nursing education. Our training nurses receive thorough, on-site practical training under the supervision of our vets, qualified nurses and assessors.

Sarah Elliott BVSc MRCVS
Veterinary Surgeon

Sarah qualified from Liverpool University in 1998 and feels like she’s come full circle, having been with Towcester Vets for 3 years as a student before qualifying! She grew up on a Northamptonshire dairy farm and spent a few years in mixed practice before switching to small animal. She enjoys being an all-round general practice vet with a particular interest in endocrinology (hormones!) and internal medicine. Sarah will be running the Weedon practice from July 2014.

When not at the beck and call of two elderly cats, Sarah enjoys reading thrillers, watching American TV series, playing tennis, walking, playing guitar, baking and spending time with her partner and friends. She has a secret ambition to play the double bass and aspires to keep chickens!

Helen Pope MA VetMB CertSAS MRCVS
Partner

Helen qualified from Cambridge University in 1984 and started working at Towcester Veterinary Centre shortly afterwards. She became a partner at the practice in 1994 and passed the RCVS certificate examination in Small Animal Surgery in 2010.

Helen enjoys the job every part of her job from the consulting to the operating and taking surgical referrals from other practices. She especially enjoys complex orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery. She is one of the only people in Northamptonshire registered to carry out laparoscopic (keyhole abdominal) surgery in animals.Outside work Helen enjoys running – so much so that’s she completed nine marathons! She also competes with her horse regularly. She has had working Labradors and Cocker Spaniels over the years. Helen also very much enjoys watching top class rugby.

Kathryn Mozdzynski
Registered Nurse

Kat has been veterinary nursing now for 10 years. She joined our team in 2013 originally as one of our emergency night nurses and made the transition to the day team at Towcester a year later. In January this year she made the move to the Weedon Surgery.

Over the years Kat has taught student nurses, been a lecturer in animal welfare and management as well as teaching animal biology and she enjoys seeing students achieve their goals.
She loves all aspects of nursing but particularly enjoys rehabilitation and physiotherapy, nurse clinics (which allows her to have a cuddle with the animals and a natter with the clients) and medical nursing.
She lives locally with her two Japanese Spitz (Tarquin and Benedict), her cat (Pongwiffy) and her four chickens. Outside of work she enjoys crafts, baking and Dog showing.

Lisa Larmour
Registered Nurse

Lisa qualified in 1997 as a veterinary nurse and loves everything nursing. She especially enjoys emergency work and nursing hospital patients. Lisa works at Towcester doing a few night shifts a month as well as some shifts here at Weedon.

Lisa is married with 2 young children and has a very energetic lurcher called Percy as well as gerbils.
When she is not running about after them, which is most of the time she enjoys swimming, horse riding and reading.

Becci Thompson
Receptionist

Becci has always had a passion for animals and thoroughly enjoys being able to interact with all the pets and their owners that come to Weedon vets. Having started working for a previous veterinary practice back in November 2014, she realised very quickly that this was something she would love to pursue.

Whilst growing up, Becci had many different pets including an iguana, a ferret, 2 German shepherds and a working Labrador. She also attended a lot of shooting days and really enjoyed taking part in clay pigeon shooting regularly.In her spare time she enjoys being outdoors and walking, and has walked to the top of Snowdon (but sadly took the train back to the bottom). One of her fondest memories is being fortunate enough to have canoed along the river in the Florida quays.

Alison Nicholls
Receptionist

Alison joined Weedon Vets as a receptionist in March 2015. Initially she trained as a radiographer before joining the family business in Towcester in which she has worked for the last 20 years.

Alison comes from a farming family and has always had a love of all animals. Growing up she was surrounded by pets which included dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, budgerigars, fish and tortoises.Earlier in the year she decided to use her previous medical experience and combine it with her love of animals to work in a Veterinary practice. Meeting pets and their owners, she has quickly realised that this is her perfect job and thoroughly enjoys her role within the practice team.Alison currently has one re-homed cat called Sammy, however I don’t think it will be too long before she is joined by a little brother or sister!

Hollie Smith
Student Nurse

Hollie has just joined our team as a Student Veterinary Nurse at Towcester and Weedon Vets. She will be studying a Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing at Moreton Morrell College in September 2016 and is eager to learn as much as she can.

Hollie has just moved to the area and now lives locally with her four guinea pigs (Alfred, Luna, Stanley and Chewy), two budgies (Lintu and Lady) and a terrapin (Shelly). She has a background in Art and completed a degree in Fine Art in 2012 at Aberystwyth University.

Fay Wood
Student Nurse

Fay joined our nursing team at Towcester and Weedon vets as a student veterinary nurse in July 2016. She will be starting a Level 3 diploma in veterinary nursing in September 2016 at College of Animal welfare – godmanchester.
Fay has completed a extended diploma in animal management at Moulton college which she completed in June 2014.
Before joining us, Fay had worked in some animal care sectors such as pet store, livery and riding yards also volunteering at a local animal shelter.
At home Fay has two pet dogs, one working spaniel and a pony! Fay’s spaniel works as a sound work dog from Hearing Dogs for Deaf People to help her with sounds and independence around the home due to her severe hearing loss from a young age.